Mr. Xi's thoughts are being presented, in the classic style of Chinese politics, as the "Two No Repudiates": don't use what happened after economic reform began in 1978 to repudiate what happened before it, and don't use what happened before 1978 to repudiate what came after.
"Why would you repudiate — I don't understand the question," he went on.
A nation that repudiated "don't ask, don't tell" and embraced marriage equality.
The Court repudiated, but did not explicitly overrule, the "freedom of contract" line of cases in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937).
Currently Bolivia and Venezuela have no ambassadors at all and other Bush appointments represent old and repudiated ways of doing business.
Trump seems to momentarily repudiate what Russia is doing — but then quickly changes the subject to NATO funding.
Before we totally repudiate what Mr. Ashcroft is doing we need to remember something very basic: most of these hijackers came from big families.
All these accounts reflect the intuition that an action cannot be attributed to the agent herself if, even as she performs this action, she occupies a point of view from which she repudiates what she is doing.
While many students and professors at Columbia sympathized, others felt that the university should repudiate what he did, or at least clarify where it stood on activity of this sort.
For one thing, with an approval rating that runs 20 points or more above Congressional leaders, Obama is his own distinct brand; just because voters may be inclined to repudiate Congressional Democrats doesn't necessarily mean they are primed to reject his presidency.
Congress is the only alternative to come out and say we repudiate the President, and, not only do we repudiate him, this does not speak for the United States; this is morally repugnant to us".
